The Entire French Legal Code Dating Back to Napoleon is Online

The Entire French Legal Code Dating Back to Napoleon is Online

The French Civil Code was adopted in 1804, the same year Napoleon was crowned emperor. The code, which inspired the legal systems in much of Europe, is still in force today in France. Now, a French freelance developer has put the entire civil code on GitHub, the web-based depository to track revisions in software code. The benefits of using GitHub, rather than going to the French government’s own online hub of the civil code, is the ability to track changes. It is a logical and user-friendly way to track the changes to laws over time. In a similar spirit, developers have put the federal laws of Germany and the US on GitHub as well.

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James Kelly, former Reference Librarian for the New York Law Institute. He served six years as Access Services Research Librarian/Lecturer-in-Law at Vanderbilt Law School Library after two years as Law Reference Librarian/Assistant Professor of Library Administration at Jenner Law Library, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois. Jim also practiced law for several years before moving into librarianship. Jim received his J.D., cum laude, from University of Louisville and his M.S.L.I.S. from the University of Kentucky.

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